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Felix Rohatyn presents his memoir Dealings.

It was a German soldier's chance decision to reach for a cigarette and absently wave a car through a checkpoint outside Marseille in 1940 that allowed Felix Rohatyn and his Jewish family to escape from Nazi-occupied France. In the States, a chance summer job led him to the small, private investment bank of Lazard Freres, where he came under the tutelage of legendary financier Andre Meyer. The summer job turned into an extraordinary fifty-year career.

About Felix Rohatyn

Rohatyn is an American investment banker known for his role in preventing the bankruptcy of New York City in the 1970s. He served as United States Ambassador to France from 1997-2000.